Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

I thought I’d log in to make sure I still had a blog out there somewhere. Turns out it’s still here! Shocking. I can’t promise thrice-weekly updates but I would like to get back to something more frequent than every three months. It feels like forever since the holidays–a lot has changed around here, about [...]

Among my guilty pleasures is “The Next Food Network Star,” which I have found to be a fairly interesting look at what makes someone a good TV host (not simply a good cook, like on Top Chef). I like the judges and find their discussions of the business of TV fascinating. And last season I [...]

Maybe if I take the pressure off and post Instagram pictures from my phone I’ll update more often? Worth a try. Last night we ate a delicious (and deliciously-local) simple summer dinner. Beautiful baby new potatoes from the farm: I brought them to a boil with a couple halved cloves of garlic, then simmered until [...]

Despite the reduction in major food projects around these parts, we ate pretty well over the holidays. The part I was a bit smug about, actually, was how I used up the many leftovers that were packing the fridge after Tom left. For Christmas Eve we recreated the dinner from two years ago: steak, celeriac [...]

Oh, hello. I have a blog? Hmm. We’ve come to the end of the regular CSA season, though I’m signed on for a winter share again and will get vegetables every other week until Christmas. Week 16, 9/21: Week 17, 9/28: Week 18, 10/5: Week 19, 10/12: Week 20, 10/19 (Note the Freak Beet that [...]

Wow, newborns are really time-consuming. I think Tucker can sense when I’m thinking of getting back to blogging, because that’s inevitably when the previously-silent monitor lights up with a ravenous scream. He’s a great baby, a solid night-time sleeper, and awfully cute, but during the day he doesn’t take well to naps in his bassinet, [...]

No baby yet! Week 9: -Corn -New potatoes -Purple cabbage (a frilly, pretty one) -Tomatoes -Summer squash -Thyme -Green peppers -Cavolo nero! Oh, August. You make dinner so easy. I steamed the corn and cut it off the cob, and mixed it with some of the basil compound butter I made a few weeks ago [...]

The disaster of the previous week’s corn was forgiven once we ate this duo. Oh man, was it good! The haul: -Beets! -Corn! -Kale! -Basil! -Beans! -Zucchini/summer squash. I wasn’t going to get to the basil before it turned black and sad, so I decided to make a compound butter that I could freeze. I [...]

We were at the lake for the first part of last week, thanks to many of you fabulous people. More on that after the vegetables. Ben went to pick up the share after we got home on Tuesday, while I lay flat in the air conditioned bedroom and bemoaned the lack of lake outside our [...]

Ok, I just looked at the 10-day forecast and there’s no break in sight. The heat, it is here to stay. The stove, it is staying off as much as possible. This week’s share: -Lettuce -Garlic -Peas -Summer squash -Cucumbers -2 cabbages (one was a swap for MORE cilantro) -Eggs We’ve been out of town [...]